Remember Salvador Puig Antich

[The Feral Underclass]

"40 years ago today, at 9:20 am on 2 March 1974, the execution by garrote vil began of a 25-year-old anarchist in a cell at La Modelo, Barcelona, despite a widespread international campaign to spare his life. It took him almost twenty minutes to die, as the medieval device slowly strangled him with each turn. An East German common criminal named Georg Michael Welzel (alias Heinz Chez) was also killed that day, at Tarragona prison. The two executions were the last time this horrifically intimate form of execution - a metal band is slowly tightened around the neck by the executioner standing behind with a crank until the victim is asphyxiated -- was carried out in Spain. Puig Antich had been found guilty by a military trial of killing a civil guard in a shoot-out. Recent forensic studies have cast huge doubts as to whether the policeman was really killed by a bullet from Puig Antich’s gun or by friendly-fire in the heat of the gunfight, but the State still refuses to review the case or even release documents pertaining to it."

http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Salvador_Puig_Antich.jpg

Wikipedia for Salvador Puig Antich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Puig_Antich)

[Hit The North]

Fuck Franco, obviously. But why is this in Theory?

[Sasha]

Note "civil guard" I asume is a sloppy translation of gardia civil, which is the paramilitary police in Spain.

[The Feral Underclass]

Fuck Franco, obviously. But why is this in Theory?

Ooops, I meant to put it in History.

Perhaps a mod could change that.

[RedAnarchist]

Moved to History.

One of many murdered in Spain under Franco. May his memory last far longer than that of the vile dictator.

[Red Commissar]

I've never heard of him before, shame what happened to him. Franco's regime was a real crapshoot, if he was on the opposite side of the Cold War we'd be given endless exposes of his regime instead of the resigned shrug we get now.